You know what I want to do now? Hike the Grand Enchantment Trail. However, I sold my November for a ride home from Manning Park and also, I should get up to my cabin in BC to check on things up there so it may be spring before I hit that trail.
Maybe while I wait for my passport to get renewed, I’ll head over to my Washington cabin and read a book. No sense getting the phone turned on until I figure out what I’m doing this winter.
I miss trail life–it should never have to end.
Hey, I’m back from my hike. There was 150 miles missed because of fire closures and another 112 miles in Oregon missed because of the “MUST HAVE CRAMPONS!” sign but I think I’m done with the trail for this year. I’m sure I will be back another year.
My sister and brother-in-law came and picked us up at Manning Park. At the border crossing in Osoyoos, I handed the border guard my passport and my “permission to enter Canada through the PCT” papers.
He said, “Where did you cross at?”
I said, “Monument 78”
Then he said, “That is not a legal crossing and do you realize, ma’am, that we could arrest you because you didn’t have permission to leave the country?”
He took all of our passports and made us pull over to the side and come in. Then after he couldn’t get any of the other people excited about it. He said, “We have copies of all of your passports and the vehicle information, right here.”
He said, “I’m not sure about the rules here but I’m going to look into this. My name is Sutton if you want to find out what I find out.”
Do you see why I just want to hike and live in remote places away from the Suttons of the world?
The hiker that was missing came into Stehekin. He was tired and had a wet bag but was fine. He had a story of taking some wrong turns but ended up at trail workers camp. It was a tale similar to “Goldie Locks and the three bears” except it was “Silver Locks and the Three Trail workers.” It was great to see him alive and well.
It is supposed to be unseasonably cold the next week, maybe even snow. I should have known that before I sent my shoes on and committed to walking the rest of the trail in sandals.
Probably should have taken my stove out of my bounce box as well. Hot beverages would have been nice. That down vest that was in there might be missed this week, also.
My son and I head out soon.
Hey from I don’t know where. I left Stehekin on the boat and am camp out in a small hotel room with my son in some small town. Tomorrow we take the boat back to Stehekin and start hiking the last 90 miles together.
I’m worried for a PCT thru-hiker that has failed to show up. His hiking partner has not seen him since Tuesday morning and as of Saturday at 11:00am he was 48 hours late arriving in Stehekin. His wife has not heard from him in a week and a half. Search and rescue has been notified.
I’m at Snoqualmie Pass–mile 2400. Been here for three days now because I don’t want to go out in the rain.
I have been slow and tired lately so the rest might do me some good.
Very few huckleberries have been ripe, and that has been a great disappointment.
Lots of hikers here. Many talking of failures from their light weight tents. I remember last year it raining really hard and me and my gear getting really wet too. That’s the thing about single wall sil-nylon tents– they are great until it rains really hard and then you realize how crappy they truly are.
It is going to be a mass exodus once the weather breaks.
I bought two new pairs of Fox River socks in Wrightwood about 1900 miles ago and even though I hardly ever wash the dirt out of them and I wear them with sandals, they are showing no wear….. Those are some good socks. I think one pair is the WICK DRY® OFF ROAD QTR and the other is the WICK DRY® ENDEAVOR QTR.
I would buy these socks again.
Okay, it’s morning and I should be back on the trail. Instead, I’m sitting in the apartment, drinking coffee, and reading stuff on the Internet.
It’s cloudy and cool out. If it starts to rain it will be very hard to get moving.
I went shopping for a new backpack and almost bought an Osprey44. It weighs 2lbs 7 oz. I put 35lbs in it and it carried it pretty decently.
For now though I think I will revert to my repaired Mountainsmith Ghost and my son can use the duct taped Mountainsmith CDT when he joins me in Stehkin.
I went shopping for new shoes because my running shoes are like hiking in slippers when I hit snow… But I’m having trouble parting with a 100 dollars to try out a new pair of shoes that may or may not work for me.
Maybe I will just buy a pair of lightweight instep crampons. I had a pair in the Sierras that weighed 6oz, but I lost them on one of the passes.
I still have to resupply–I guess there is a store around here somewhere in this maze.